Loyal AI Chat is the only healthcare-exclusive conversational AI solution that can be deployed across all of your digital channels including website, patient portal, Google search, and more. It has the capability to correctly map to your staff for specific care, depending on the question and how your health system chooses to set up the workflow. 

For example, Loyal’s AI can understand if a question is specific to clinical or specialty care that should be routed to a cardiology department, or if it is strictly a billing or scheduling question. Combined with the power of Loyal Enterprise OS, Chat expands the opportunity to identify, acquire and retain patients.

Benefits:

• Provide conversational engagement and customer support with precisely defined responses to consumer queries.
• Virtually triage patients with Symptom Checker and integrated self-scheduling workflows.
• Work from a self-service dialog builder and advanced NLP and ML prediction models to retain quality control over the chat experience.
• Integrate care data and EHR scheduling capabilities with your chatbot.
• Customizable branding configurations and service line specific bot profiles for targeted messaging and support.
• Solve unique consumer problems with Live Chat escalation and integrate with your contact center.
• Automatically conduct consumer satisfaction surveys and get recommendations for improvement.

Results:

• Increased access to care, appointment conversions, and overall customer satisfaction.
• Improved contact center efficiency and reduced low acuity call inquiries.
• Decreased burden on emergency departments by redirecting patients to appropriate care.

Founded in 2015 in Atlanta, Georgia, Loyal is a healthcare technology company dedicated to enabling a healthier life for all by making care more clear, accessible, efficient, and consistent for patients and the providers they rely on. 

We do this by combining our deep understanding of healthcare consumer intent and clinical taxonomy with a suite of best-in-class patient engagement products, helping patients choose your organization, find your doctors, schedule appointments and re-engage when the time is right. . Beyond that, we can help optimize your systems and improve your relationships with patients, providers, payors, employers, and the broader community, so you can better understand your patients and be able to reach them at the right time in their care journey. Fully implemented, Loyal becomes a central part of your operations,providing actionable insights for the enterprise, supporting a deeper understanding of patient demand, visit inventory, consumer preference and even physician staffing needs. . 

As the preferred platform for improved care utilization, Loyal is used by the nation’s leading healthcare organizations, partnering with 37+ health systems, 490+ hospitals, and 55+ providers from across the U.S. 

Virtual Triage efficiently tackles the first mile of care by getting patients to the right care, at the right place and time with the right type of provider.

• Avoid unnecessary ER and urgent care utilization
• Promote convenient and consumer-centric care access
• Enable better care navigation, including emergency, primary, and specialty care
• Reduce high-volume, low-value administrative burdens on care teams by streamlining care routing and appointment booking processes

Clearstep’s Virtual Triage algorithms are built on top of Schmitt Clinical Content and are unique to each patient’s symptoms, acuity, and situation. Dr. Barton Schmitt is the co-author of the telephone triage protocols used in ~95% of call centers around the country and have been validated in over 200 million telephone triage encounters. They are the gold standard for telephone triage and Clearstep is the only provider of Schmitt Clinical Content for chat-based digital self-triage. In a double-blinded study, Clearstep’s triage routing exceeded 95% accuracy when compared to the judgment of a panel of ER doctors in a live, community-hospital setting.

What value does the Virtual Triage Solution provide?

Patient Acquisition:

Use Clearstep as a lead-generator, finding consumers online with care-seeking intent, bringing them through triage, and helping them book care at your organization. We’ve shown 10x ROI with current clients via booking appointments with Clearstep for new patients to the system.

Patient Retention:

Make it easy for existing patients to always know what to do next for their care. Promoting Clearstep as part of SMS follow-ups post-visits or embedding Clearstep in existing patient portals can help achieve this value lever.

Patient Satisfaction:

Clearstep’s Net Promoter Score (NPS) is 4x healthcare’s average. We consistently see users leaving positive, promotional comments about our clients – we’re white-labeled, so users see Clearstep as an extension of their provider, and leave great feedback about Clearstep in the context of our client’s brand (like the examples on our homepage).

Call/Command Center Efficiencies:

Avoid patients calling your nurse triage line by deflecting them to Clearstep’s self-service triage.

Alternatively, Virtual Triage can be used to scale up non-clinical call center agents and enable to accurate triage and schedule patient appointments. 

Care Routing Efficiencies:

At the end of the day, Clearstep is all about delivering the right care, at the right time, in the right care setting. Your providers are better enabled to practice at the top of their license with Clearstep ensuring the right patients are reaching them. Your system also benefits from the efficiencies of appropriate navigation (i.e. avoiding unnecessary ER visits, promoting telehealth when appropriate, routing directly to a specialist when it makes sense, etc.)

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Clearstep is the preeminent digital self-service triage and care navigation healthcare assistant on the market. It distinguishes itself as the sole AI chat-based triage solution crafted from Dr. Barton Schmitt's gold-standard telephone triage protocols, achieving an impressive accuracy rate surpassing 95%. With the largest health system deployments nationwide, Clearstep collaborates with esteemed institutions like HCA Healthcare, Mount Sinai, Novant Health, Tufts Medicine, Baylor Scott & White Health, and numerous others spanning over 15 states. Clearstep's innovative Smart Care Routing™ solutions empower healthcare organizations to effectively tackle critical challenges such as efficient self-service patient access and care navigation, patient acquisition and retention, call center deflection and automation, and optimizing capacity. Ultimately, Clearstep's solutions pave the way for enhanced experiences for patients and care teams alike.